Safoora massacre convict Saad Aziz acquitted in police encounter case

Author: Web Desk

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Monday acquitted Safoora massacre prime convict Saad Aziz in yet another case filed against him.

The ATC acquitted Saad in a police encounter and an intent to murder case filed against him due lack of evidence.

Police had said that on June 3, 2015, Saad had attacked the security forces in Samnabad area of Karachi, but fled as soon as the police retaliated.

A case was registered against the convicted death-row prisoner at the Samanabad police station.

Last week, Saad Aziz, along with Tahir Hussain Minhas, was acquitted by the ATC in grenade attack on a private school in North Nazimabad.

According to the police, the two had carried out a grenade attack which caused the school’s external wall to collapse.

The suspects’ counsel, however, argued that no evidence had been found against Aziz and Minhas and that the school administration has also refused to recognise them.

A military court had awarded capital punishment in the case to Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin, Tahir Hussain Minhas alias Sain, Asadur Rehman alias Malik, Mohammad Azhar Ishrat alias Majid and Hanif Nazir on May 12, 2016, over the Safoora bus attack that left at least 46 people dead.

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